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Summary: Gorey Meets Larson With a Little Goldberg
Review: I rarely buy books on first sight but one glimpse into this small volume sold me. My wife and I took it home and allotted ourselves to two pages a day to make it last. Then we both took it to work and caused downturns in productivity as we showed it to all our coworkers. Now it sits on the shelf in easy reach and gets brought out whenever people come over. Why?
Well, this is simply the funniest thing I've come across in a long time. It's a book of simple black and white cartoon line drawings of bunny rabbits either planning their own demise, or showing the result of their suicide. There is no dialogue (except one sequence involving Darth Vader), no captions, just these ridiculous little rabbits with completely deadpan faces and a sadistic self-destructive streak. The most common comparison is to Gary Larson and the talking animals of his "Far Side" panels. These are somewhat similar in that they unfold in a single panel and are sublimely ridiculous and clever, but there's also often a Rube Goldberg character to the elaborate suicide plans. In terms of tone however, I think Edward Gorey is perhaps more on the mark, in terms of depicting the darkest deadpan humor possible.
Non-Brits should note that some of the jokes depend on being versed in British popular culture. For example, one is only funny if you're familiar with the work of Damien Hirst, another is only funny if you've seen the classic British cult film The Wicker Man, and one requires an understanding of British hand gestures (the "peace sign" being flashed by a bunny lined up with Nazi soldiers cited by one reviewer is actually something rather more rude...). But for the most part, the humor comes from the hilarious juxtaposition of the earnest bunnies and their tools of suicide, example include: windmill + pickaxe, trampoline + helicopter, stapler + angry dog.
In any event, Riley's collection of macabre bunny death is pure brilliance, and will doubtless be popping up on t-shirts and postcards soon--in the meantime, the book makes a great gift.
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Summary: All-Natural Mood Enhancer
Review: I was having a rough start to my work day when a co-worker handed me this book. Definitely turned things around for me. The cuteness of the bunnies clashing with some very creative suicide plans makes for great humor. The price is a little steep for such a short book, but it's worth it.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I was really looking forward to reading this book, but it has hardly made me smile... I wouldn't recommend it at all.
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Summary: Funny fluffy Bunnies
Review: If you are disturbed by cartoons that play around on the dark side of humor, this book may not be for you. If on the other hand you like cartoons like Lenore and the Far Side, then this might be right up your alley. This book is full of spot-on funny drawings of little fluffy bunnies who just don't want to live any more, and find creative ways to end their fluffy little existance. My favorite: The little fluffy bunnie doing the "peace" sign standing in line-up with Fascist soldiers...This book is giving me daily laughs, and I glory in making sane people squirm, then burst out chuckling, shamefacedly admit that they LOVE this book. Oh, and I gave a copy to my professor in "Clinical treatment of personality disorders". It was well received.
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Summary: There is nothing funny about suicide......
Review: Making light of the difficulties of life is one thing.... But to consider suicide a joke is just sick!!!! regardless if is that of a bunny or a person. Shame on you, really!!!
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Summary: Hilarious.
Review: No words, just pictures. Here's one to whet your appetite: A bunny holding a boomerang. Attached to that boomerang is a hand grenade. Good stuff.
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Summary: Some Parts Hysterical but Mostly Mediocre
Review: On average I read a new book every day. A 500 page book may take me two evenings but it's rare that I can't finish a novel before bed. I guess I'm trying to say I'm not the kind of person who usually quibbles over spending $8 buck on a paperback. I read the reviews here and since I was passing a bookstore that night I dropped in to buy it. Some of the Comics are extremely funny. I mean laugh out laugh so everyone in the bookstore hears you and turns their head funny! But most of the cartoons are barely mediocre. The 5 or 6 superb ones almost made me buy it. I'm pretty honest that way. I've read more than a few novels cover to cover while browsing in a bookstore aisle and even though I've already read them I always buy them any way. I don't believe in not paying for something I've read. I guess the point is that I read this book in 9 minutes and found myself walking back from the counter to the book shelf (3 times) struggling with my conscience about whether I was going to purchase it. Ultimately I felt that the book was such a waste of money that I ended up not buying it.
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Summary: well...
Review: Quite sick, not that funny. Some drawings are particularly disgusting. I don't know, but I think the majority of it simply doesn't work.
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Summary: Dangerous mind
Review: The best thing about _The Book of Bunny Suicides_ is that there's actually not that much gore involved. Oh, sure, there are plenty of decapitated, disemboweled, liquefied, and otherwise visibly deceased bunnies in evidence. And don't get me wrong: that's funny too. Yet Riley is clearly among that rare but blessed breed of humorists who recognize that the anticipation can be even funnier than the payoff. And so, right after he shows us three bunnies impaled upon a light saber, he shows us two more bunnies calmly sunning themselves on the beach as Noah's Ark prepares to depart. On the downside, Disney may never hire Riley again once it gets a load of _The Book of Bunny Suicides_. On the upside, he's already proven that this would be Disney's loss rather than his. Funniest, bunni^H^H^H^H^HNO I WILL NOT MAKE THAT DUMB JOKE cartoon collection of 2003, paws down.
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Summary: just buy it!
Review: There are cartoons in this book that will make you laugh so hard you pee in your pants. You will want to rip some of the cartoons out of the book and post them on the door of your office or frame them for your bathroom. This is better than Gary Larson. BUY IT! You will laugh -- a lot! Just make sure you pee BEFORE you start reading the book.
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